Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Roman Catholic Flemings-need a King as a symbol of unity. Belgium's young dynasty, just over a century old, has usually known its place. Baudouin's grandfather, mountain-climbing King Albert, became Europe's best-loved monarch (in October 1918, in trench coat and battered helmet, Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern...
...WEAPONS: Production of the new 3.5-in. bazooka is so high that cutbacks have been ordered. Tied in with the airborne's effort to lighten all equipment, several new items have been developed. Among them: a new entrenching tool, four pounds lighter than the old; an aluminum-nylon helmet, 8% lighter; new tropical combat boots, 3/4 Ib. lighter. Also due to be lightened: rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition...
...gunning for an altitude where the outside air temperature is 67° F. below zero and the pressure low enough to make a man's blood boil; though the little plane's cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned, Bridgeman wore a specially designed pressure-suit with a helmet like a deep-sea diver's. A tiny windshield wiper cleared the face plate of the condensed moisture from his breath...
Time for Ernie (weekdays, 3:15 p.m., NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
Cartooning: The Arizona Republic's Reginald ("Reg") Manning, for his cartoon, "Hats," contrasting the sleek toppers of U.N. diplomats with a G.I.'s bullet-punctured helmet...